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...serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them honorary colonels in the State National Guard...
...took ten months of humoring and hammering, persuasion and perseverance to get the U. S. copper industry to sign a code last year, but once having signed, coppermen became NRA's heartiest boosters. Just two years before they had been starving to death with copper at 4.7? per Ib. The code pegged the price at 9?. Early last year there was enough copper above ground to keep the U. S. supplied for 18 months with every mine closed. The code slapped severe restrictions on output and today the copper above ground would last only seven months. From the code...
While the Sikorsky 543 is an extremely interesting and valuable airplane it seems to me that-since it carries 16 persons, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 19,000 Ib. and two engines, while the Fairchild carries 10 people, 1,000 Ib. of mail and express and has a gross weight of 9,600 Ib. and only one engine-it should more rightly have been called by you a Mid-Clipper or Youthful Clipper, just to keep the distinction clear...
...housewives could buy "loss leaders" at cut-rate stores, walk around the corner and sell them at a profit to Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying the announcement hit the street. For Puritan bacon sold by competitors at 18? per Ib. Safeway was offering 34? for 3-lb. Crisco tins, 54? against the cut-rater's 29?; for National Brand butter 29? against 13?. The rush lofted to a peak the first day, then dwindled rapidly until, within three days, the volume of incoming merchandise amounted to only a handful...
Born. To Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 23, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team, and Edna May Rowe: a son, their first child; in Detroit. Weight: 4 Ib. Next day Father Rowe yielded only three hits as he beat Boston...